Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national general secretary Satish Misra may continue to remain her confidant, but Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has no intentions of letting him don the mantle of her successor as she Saturday said only a Dalit will succeed her.
1:00 AM on July 05Manoj Pradhan, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator who is an accused in last year's communal violence in Orissa and has been in jail since October, got 15-day bail Saturday to take oath as member of the assembly.1:00 AM on July 05
A 17-year-old boy was found in an unconscious state near his village in south Kashmir late Saturday, almost a week after he was arrested by the army.1:00 AM on July 05
Lovers of the king of fruits thronged a Haryana town as the 18th edition of the mango festival started Saturday.10:30 PM on July 04
Passengers aboard a Saudia airliner on a Jeddah-Mumbai flight had a scare when its tyres burst during landing at Mumbai airport Saturday evening, an official said.10:30 PM on July 04
A Thai national was found suffering from swine flu, taking the total number of influenza A (H1N1) cases in India to 129, said an official statement Saturday.10:30 PM on July 04
An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer has been named in an allegedly illegal child adoption case in Uttar Pradesh following National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) directions, a police official said Saturday.9:32 PM on July 04
Himachal Pradesh has requested the central government to increase the import duty on apple juice concentrate to save the domestic industry.9:32 PM on July 04
A 45-year-old woman - who was separated from her husband and apparently hard pressed for finances - committed suicide along with her three children here Saturday, police said.9:32 PM on July 04
The monsoon tightened its grip over Mumbai Saturday, with heavy rains leading to flooding in the city and its suburbs, causing traffic snarls on highways and arterial roads and disrupting flights.9:31 PM on July 04
Six sharpshooters of Chhota Shakeel - one of India's most wanted gangsters - were arrested from different parts of the capital Saturday, police said adding 'some VVIPs' were on their hit list.9:31 PM on July 04
Punjab police Saturday claimed to have busted an international drug trafficking racket with the arrest of four Nigerian youths here.9:31 PM on July 04
The Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) led by former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda appeared to be on the verge of a split as its national executive Saturday rejected Kerala unit president M.P. Veerendrakumar's demand and decided to continue the alliance with the ruling Left.9:31 PM on July 04
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Saturday launched a skill development programme to train about 100,000 domestic workers here in a variety of subjects ranging from personal hygiene to first-aid.9:30 PM on July 04
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Saturday said the Delhi High Court had done a 'very dangerous thing' by decriminalising gay sex, though Janata Dal-United (JD-U) chief Sharad Yadav believed 'homosexuality is not an issue in India'.9:30 PM on July 04